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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1683.

Events

May 17 – Jordaan Luchtmans, the predecessor of Brill Publishers, is registered as a bookseller by the Leiden booksellers' guild.^[1]
May 25 – Lancelot Addison is appointed Dean of Lichfield.
June 26 – Madame de La Fayette is widowed.
August/September – John Locke flees to the Netherlands, under suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot in England.
November 4 – Marriage of André Dacier and Anne Lefèvre in Paris.^[2]
December 7 – English parliamentarian Algernon Sidney is executed for treason, based largely on the anti-monarchist views expressed in his Discourses Concerning Government , in manuscript
unknown dates
- John Banks' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage by the censors.^[3]
- A public library is first recorded at Kirkwall on Orkney.^[4]

New books

Fiction

Alexander Oldys (?) – The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore
"Abbé du Prat" (pseudonym) – Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise)

Drama

Joshua Barnes – Landgartha, or the Amazon Queen of Denmark and Norway^[5]
Chikamatsu Monzaemon – Yotsugi Soga (The Soga Successors/The Soga Heir)
John Crowne – City Politiques ^[5]
John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise
Nathaniel Lee – Constantine the Great
Thomas Otway – The Atheist^[5]
Edward Ravenscroft – Dame Dobson ^[5]
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Los empeños de una casa (The Trials of a Noble House)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El pintor de su deshonra

Poetry

Robert Gould – Love Given O'er: Or a Satyr on the Inconstancy of Woman

Non-fiction

"R. B." (i. e. Nathaniel Crouch), compiled – Two Journeys to Jerusalem
John Dryden – Plutarch (one of the first biographies in the English language)
Joseph Moxon – Mechanick Exercises
John Pordage – Theologia Mystica
Dr. Thomas Sydenham – Tractatus de podagra et hydrope

Births

April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749)
December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English controversialist and cleric (died 1750)

Deaths

January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (born 1609)
March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and manager (born 1612)
August – Ralph Josselin, English diarist and Anglican cleric (born 1616)^[6]
August 24 – John Owen, English theologian (born 1616)
October 20 – Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, French novelist and dramatist (born 1640)
November 18 – Innokentiy Gizel, Ukrainian historian (born c. 1600)
December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer and biographer (born 1593)^[7]

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References

↑ van der Veen, Sytze (2008). Brill: 325 Years of Scholarly Publishing. Leiden: Brill. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-04-17032-2.
↑ Green, Karen (4 December 2014). A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-107-08583-1.
↑ Payne, Deborah (11 May 2000). The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-521-58812-6.
↑ "History". Orkney Archive. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
1 2 3 4 Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim (21 August 2013). The Annals of English Drama 975-1700. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-134-67634-7.
↑ Ralph Josselin; Alan Macfarlane (16 May 1991). The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683. OUP/British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726103-3.
↑ Thomas Zouch (1826). The Life of Izaak Walton: Including Notices of His Contemporaries. T. Gosden. p. 62.

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[1] van der Veen, Sytze (2008). Brill: 325 Years of Scholarly Publishing. Leiden: Brill. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-04-17032-2.

[2] Green, Karen (4 December 2014). A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-107-08583-1.

[3] Payne, Deborah (11 May 2000). The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-521-58812-6.

[4] "History". Orkney Archive. Retrieved 2014-05-21.

[Wagonheim2013-5] 1 2 3 4 Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim (21 August 2013). The Annals of English Drama 975-1700. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-134-67634-7.

[6] Ralph Josselin; Alan Macfarlane (16 May 1991). The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683. OUP/British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726103-3.

[7] Thomas Zouch (1826). The Life of Izaak Walton: Including Notices of His Contemporaries. T. Gosden. p. 62.

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